AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire Thursday, May 11. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
A migrant’s baby is carried in a suitcase across the Rio Grande river from Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Migrants rushed across the Mexico border, racing to enter the U.S. before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on the nation’s beleaguered immigration system. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Migrants line-up between a barbed-wire barrier and the border fence at the US-Mexico border, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Migrants rushed across the Mexico border Thursday, racing to enter the U.S. before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on the nation’s beleaguered immigration system. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
A migrant gestures to Texas National Guards standing behind razor wire on the bank of the Rio Grande river, seen from Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, May 11, 2023. The Biden administration has been unveiling strict new measures to replace Title 42, which since March 2020 has allowed border officials to quickly return asylum seekers back over the border on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of Mexico greets fans prior to the super middleweight championship fight against John Ryder of Britain at the Akron Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico, Saturday, May 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A picture of Pope Francis hangs beside a sign that reads in Spanish “With debit card 7%, with credit 12% increase,” at a vegetable and fruit market in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, May 11, 2023. According to a recent World Bank Food Security report, Argentina has seen a 107% annual inflation rate in food prices. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Vania Hernandez Portillo, whose mother is disappeared, joins the mothers of disappeared children marching to demand government help in the search for their missing loved ones on Mother’s Day in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
People wait at the Stabroek Market to ferry across the Demerara River, near a container ship in Georgetown, Guyana, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Guayana is poised to become the world’s fourth-largest offshore oil producer, placing it ahead of Qatar, the United States, Mexico and Norway. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Fans of River Plate cheer before the start a local tournament soccer match against Boca Juniors at Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, May 7, 2023.(AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
Electoral workers prepare the old Mapocho train station, now a cultural center, to be a polling station for the Constitutional Council election in Santiago, Chile, Friday, May 5, 2023. The far-right in Chile was the big winner of Sunday’s vote to select the members of the commission that will be tasked with writing a new constitution to replace the one imposed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Homeless Alessandra Bueno Barros watches a performance by Flavio Falcone, known as the clown doctor of Crackland in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Falcone leads a program called “Teto, Trampo e Tratamento” or Roof, Work and Treatment, which carries out social activities with drug users. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire Thursday, May 11. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire Thursday, May 11. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
A migrant’s baby is carried in a suitcase across the Rio Grande river from Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Migrants rushed across the Mexico border, racing to enter the U.S. before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on the nation’s beleaguered immigration system. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A migrant’s baby is carried in a suitcase across the Rio Grande river from Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Migrants rushed across the Mexico border, racing to enter the U.S. before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on the nation’s beleaguered immigration system. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Migrants line-up between a barbed-wire barrier and the border fence at the US-Mexico border, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Migrants rushed across the Mexico border Thursday, racing to enter the U.S. before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on the nation’s beleaguered immigration system. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
Migrants line-up between a barbed-wire barrier and the border fence at the US-Mexico border, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Migrants rushed across the Mexico border Thursday, racing to enter the U.S. before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on the nation’s beleaguered immigration system. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
A migrant gestures to Texas National Guards standing behind razor wire on the bank of the Rio Grande river, seen from Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, May 11, 2023. The Biden administration has been unveiling strict new measures to replace Title 42, which since March 2020 has allowed border officials to quickly return asylum seekers back over the border on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A migrant gestures to Texas National Guards standing behind razor wire on the bank of the Rio Grande river, seen from Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, May 11, 2023. The Biden administration has been unveiling strict new measures to replace Title 42, which since March 2020 has allowed border officials to quickly return asylum seekers back over the border on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of Mexico greets fans prior to the super middleweight championship fight against John Ryder of Britain at the Akron Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico, Saturday, May 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of Mexico greets fans prior to the super middleweight championship fight against John Ryder of Britain at the Akron Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico, Saturday, May 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A picture of Pope Francis hangs beside a sign that reads in Spanish “With debit card 7%, with credit 12% increase,” at a vegetable and fruit market in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, May 11, 2023. According to a recent World Bank Food Security report, Argentina has seen a 107% annual inflation rate in food prices. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A picture of Pope Francis hangs beside a sign that reads in Spanish “With debit card 7%, with credit 12% increase,” at a vegetable and fruit market in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, May 11, 2023. According to a recent World Bank Food Security report, Argentina has seen a 107% annual inflation rate in food prices. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Vania Hernandez Portillo, whose mother is disappeared, joins the mothers of disappeared children marching to demand government help in the search for their missing loved ones on Mother’s Day in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Vania Hernandez Portillo, whose mother is disappeared, joins the mothers of disappeared children marching to demand government help in the search for their missing loved ones on Mother’s Day in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
People wait at the Stabroek Market to ferry across the Demerara River, near a container ship in Georgetown, Guyana, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Guayana is poised to become the world’s fourth-largest offshore oil producer, placing it ahead of Qatar, the United States, Mexico and Norway. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
People wait at the Stabroek Market to ferry across the Demerara River, near a container ship in Georgetown, Guyana, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Guayana is poised to become the world’s fourth-largest offshore oil producer, placing it ahead of Qatar, the United States, Mexico and Norway. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Fans of River Plate cheer before the start a local tournament soccer match against Boca Juniors at Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, May 7, 2023.(AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
Electoral workers prepare the old Mapocho train station, now a cultural center, to be a polling station for the Constitutional Council election in Santiago, Chile, Friday, May 5, 2023. The far-right in Chile was the big winner of Sunday’s vote to select the members of the commission that will be tasked with writing a new constitution to replace the one imposed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Electoral workers prepare the old Mapocho train station, now a cultural center, to be a polling station for the Constitutional Council election in Santiago, Chile, Friday, May 5, 2023. The far-right in Chile was the big winner of Sunday’s vote to select the members of the commission that will be tasked with writing a new constitution to replace the one imposed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Homeless Alessandra Bueno Barros watches a performance by Flavio Falcone, known as the clown doctor of Crackland in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Falcone leads a program called “Teto, Trampo e Tratamento” or Roof, Work and Treatment, which carries out social activities with drug users. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Homeless Alessandra Bueno Barros watches a performance by Flavio Falcone, known as the clown doctor of Crackland in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Falcone leads a program called “Teto, Trampo e Tratamento” or Roof, Work and Treatment, which carries out social activities with drug users. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
May 5-11, 2023
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was curated by AP photo editor Leslie Mazoch in Mexico City.
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